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    Ritual, moral norms, and righteousness are corrosive to n... — Carmelics
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    Ritual, moral norms, and righteousness are corrosive to natural efficacy

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    • 1.Following nature is efficacious
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    • 2.Specifically human activity, artifice, and tools such as ritual, moral norms, and righteousness deviate from nature
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    • 1.Xunzi argues that ritual (li) corrects the distortions of raw human nature, making genuine efficacy possible rather than undermining it.
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    • 2.Natural dispositions toward greed and conflict, left uncultivated, produce social disorder that diminishes collective and individual efficacy.
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    • 3.Therefore, ritual and moral norms are constitutive conditions for efficacy in social beings, not corruptions of it.
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    • 1.The Daodejing itself (ch. 17-18) treats the emergence of ritual as symptomatic of social decay, not as its cause, implying ritual responds to prior loss of de.
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    • 2.If ritual arises in response to already-diminished naturalness, then ritual is an effect of corrosion rather than its source, reversing the causal claim.
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    The Huainanzi has a difficult balancing act to maintain here, however. While it accepts the Daoist view outlined above concerning the efficacy of following nature and the corrosive nature of specifically human activity, artifice, and tools such as ritual, moral norms, and righteousness (Huainanzi 2.3), it also endorses the Confucian view of the value and necessity of ritual and other such human inventions. This is partially explained by the account of human development given in Chapter 2. The an
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